The first time he was ordered to attend the Imperial Council was five days after the departure of the Khan from Beijing.

In the morning, he got up in a hurry, and Li Dan was still in a daze and was buttoned up on the black gauze mattress by Tao Niang, hugged her and kissed her, and was pushed away again: "My lord, you can't grind anymore, be careful of being late to the court!"

Li Dan laughed puffily: "Tao Niang, it's not Chongzhen today, so I won't spank at every turn!"

"Who is Chongzhen, and is he also an emperor?" Tao Niang has never read history books, she only knows "The Biography of Privet" and "Embroidered Like Three Kingdoms" that Li Dan asked her to read.

This smile made Li Dan's eyes clear, he took a deep breath and walked outside, moving his lower limbs: "Well, the air is good this morning! But if those old men have to get up so early, that's really enough! Let's go!"

As he spoke, he walked out, and suddenly had a naughty thought, his center of gravity went down, and his body jumped up like a cat, and his feet were already standing on the top stone of the rockery after clicking on the rockery.

Tao Niang jumped to her feet below and shouted, "My lord, come down quickly, don't climb over the wall." You're wearing an official robe!"

Looking at himself, Li Dan helplessly returned to the stone path with a somersault, Tao Niang rushed up to tidy up for him a little, and slapped him on the thick back in disgust: "Let's go!"

Li Dan strode outside, Lu Jiu and Mao Zai were both holding back their joy and hurriedly followed behind him.

The double-carriage overtook a sedan chair in the eyes of many envy and jealousy, rumbled across the wide Qingfeng Bridge, entered the Chengqing Gate, and checked the sign at the head of the Sanxing Bridge, and the guards could not enter again;

Then the carriage stopped on the north side of Sogo Island under the guidance of Captain Pterodactyl, Lu Jiu and Mao Zai also stayed here, and only Li Dan crossed the Chongwen Bridge to the left gate of Chongguang.

"Yo, Brother Li, are you here so early?" Hou Xie deliberately greeted Li Dan loudly.

Li Dan first saluted him and Li Geng, who was standing side by side, and then looked back at Hou Xie's car, and said meaningfully: "The two old generals came very early, and their legs and feet are much stronger than those of the juniors!"

"Hah! Still not your car is good? I piggybacked on the Hou of Qingcheng for a while, but the Hou Ye likes it very much, you have to let them speed up the construction, so when will my brother get the new car?"

As soon as Hou Xie's words fell, several generals clamored to buy a car.

Li Dan spread his hands helplessly: "General, if I were Sun Monkey, I would have conjured it up for everyone, but the problem is that the emperor won't let it be made now!"

"Huh? Why is that?" Everyone was amazed.

"After the construction of these few cars at hand, all the cars will be stopped and the wide-wheeled trucks will be remodeled." Li Dan smiled and told them:

"That's a good thing, one cart can pull forty to fifty stones, one cart top ten stones, and it's easy to use on the big flatlands and meadows in western Liaoxi!

The emperor asked me to increase the manpower of the factory, to achieve a monthly output of 300 to 400 vehicles, and then send all of them to Liaoxi! Moreover, we will open another factory in Yanjing!"

Seeing that the generals' eyes were shining, he smiled and said mysteriously: "Now there are ten cars in the library that are being equipped with armor plates transported from the south, and which general goes to Liaoxi to lead the troops, I will sell it to him at a discount!"

But whether you can go or not, we don't count, it's up to you to show yourself, and in the end, Your Majesty will make up your mind!"

"Hey, Master Li, you're not fair! According to what you say, we civil servants have no drama?" Someone from the civil servants gathered around shouted.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Your Majesty will definitely send civilian officials to the army, and you adults can also get a discount if you go!" After Li Dan finished speaking, he felt that someone was pulling his sleeve, and then the people around him took a step back.

When I looked back, it was Liu Mu, the commander of the Wing Dragon Guard, who had seen it in the Qianyuan Palace, and hurriedly saluted him.

Liu Mu nodded and walked in front, Li Dan followed, entered the doorway on the far left side of the palace gate, walked to the middle Liu Mu stopped, turned around and said, "Your Majesty wants me to tell you two things."

"The minister receives the order......

"Eh, I haven't finished yet, and besides, this is an edict and no edict." Liu Mu grabbed him and said.

"First, he will appoint you as the military envoy of the Governor on the front line

pacification envoys;

Second, this time, let Lu Rui and Zhao Baogen protect you, and at the same time, Lu Qianhu has the right to command all the light and dark piles of the Wing Dragon Guard in Liaoxi to facilitate this operation, but you can't directly command him, understand?"

"Yes, he assists me, but not my direct subordinates." Li Dan replied.

Liu Mu nodded with satisfaction, and said, "The deputy envoy of the Yanjing Garrison, the commander of the Wing Dragon Guard, is the commander of the Tongzhi Chen Yu, the word Bingde, he has already gone to Shanhaiguan to sit in the town, you can ask him for help when you need help."

There is also a hundred households named Heli, he is a Daguan of the Ergu people (a descendant of the Ergu people after they returned to Shun), who is in charge of the exchanges of the Seyan Department, and has gone to Jinzhou. You don't have to go to him, he will come to you." Li Dan listened and wrote them down one by one in his heart.

It seems that the Emperor has greeted the Pterodactyl Guard and asked them to assist in their entirety. But Liu Mu's last sentence almost frightened him: "According to Your Majesty's will, I will assign twenty Pterodactyl guards to you as escorts, and Xiao Zhao is the leader of the team this time."

"W-Don't need this, right?" Li Dan wanted to push it away. The Pterodactyl Guard is usually a grace that only the third rank or above has been. But after looking at Liu Mu's eyes, Li Dan still bowed down and clenched his fists and said, "Minister, thank Your Majesty for your love, and you will definitely live up to your mission!"

When the emperor went to court, he didn't wear a nine-fold crown and a grand dress as shown in the TV series in his previous life.

The thirteen rings are hung with a large number of sachets, jade pendants, jade zhang, jade bi, yin new, etc., and they march step by step in the sound of grand music, which is the situation that can only be seen in the big festival ceremony.

In the general court meeting, that is, the current imperial meeting, Zhao Tuo wore a jade crown and a hairpin of the same texture on his head, and wore a yellow dark dragon pattern dress and a tugsha of the same color, with a white silk fake collar with a longevity pattern;

On the outside, he is dressed in plain blue long-to-smoke yarn, with lotus head cowhide boots on his feet, and a leather belt inlaid with jade plates around his waist, on which are hung goldfish bags, sachets, hip pressure knives and lapis lazuli string tassels.

Zhao Tuo seems to have slept well last night, and his whole person is in good spirits, looking confident and calm. He walked to the throne and pressed his hand downward, and then sat down first, and then sat down after all the ministers asked for peace.

The emperor first listened to the cabinet talk about the development of spring ploughing and the reaction of the miners in various places to the new law. Next, the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry reported on the dredging of the canal and the repair of the two locks, and the consequent impact on the transportation of grain at the border gates.

Then Yang Shi'an of the military department stood up and informed everyone of the movements of the major armies of the Kerr, and Shangshu Gulin had been ordered to go to Beijing to Shenyang to coordinate all the roads and perform the duties of the military department himself.

Although the news of the Karkas going south had been rumored for almost a month, this was the first time that it had been made public in the court. There was silence in the main hall, and everyone waited for the emperor to make a statement.

"Not long after I issued the edict to canonize the beggar Khan, the Kergol boldly sent troops to attack Monan, which is unbearable!" The emperor glanced at his ministers rather majestically:

"I have sent an edict to grant the beggar Khan the right to supervise the military of Monan. The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, I intend to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and re-establish the Hanhai Metropolitan Protectorate, do you have any candidates to serve as the Metropolitan Protector?"

"Your Majesty," Hou Xie looked left and right, and replied on behalf of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, "The ministers have elected the Governor of the Right Army, Tongzhi, General Yunlu, and Hou Deng Zhu of the Inner Village, to take on this position."

"Quasi-play!" Zhao Tuo nodded, and after Hou Xie sat down, the emperor said:

"I have ordered Wang Qing of the Ministry of Rites to enter Seyan, looking for a candidate for a side concubine for King Ding, and the two families are about to turn a century-old war into jade silk and become relatives, and Lu Yan also reached an agreement with the imperial court on reconciliation and mutual market under the mediation of Gu Qing of the Ministry of War last time.

Unexpectedly, this time the Kelco actually took these two parts as enemies, intending to annex them quickly, and his wolf ambition was like this! I can't afford to suffer such a humiliation, so I'm determined to fight against it!" After speaking, he looked at Yang Shi'an:

"The military department, immediately strengthen the defense of Jizhen and Xuanfu, and transfer all guards to assemble forward. The Yingzhou Zhuwei went out to Baimachuan, the Xingzhou Zhuwei went out to Kuanchengzi, and the Jianchang camp went out to the north of the Longwang Temple.

At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers in all of the above places sent officials to pick up the fleeing Seyan people, make proper arrangements, provide appropriate relief, and carry out the construction of castles, roads, barrages, and moats in the form of cash-for-work, so as not to worry about starvation.

At the same time, the military department is sent

Send the necessary generals to form regimental training for them and carry out scout and guerrilla missions." After speaking, he turned to the side of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies again: "There is a temporary general Huseyan outside the border wall, and the secretary and others can nominate people."

Hou Xie stood up again and elected Zhang Cunli, the right governor of the rear army, and the emperor immediately allowed him to play. Everyone can see that Your Majesty is prepared, I am afraid that he has already passed the agreement with the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and even the candidates have been decided a long time ago.

No one said anything until here, but when the emperor said that he would gather 50,000 troops to Liaoxi, there was still a lot of commotion among the courtiers.

"This is the first batch, Denglai's reserve army and the Shenwu army stationed in Hebei will successively reinforce 30,000 people in the direction of Niuzhuang and Liaoyang." After the emperor finished speaking, the buzz below became louder.

The palace duty Yushi had to shout: "Silence!"

80,000 people, everyone can already see this posture, this is preparing to fight in western Liaoning!

"Your Majesty, I really don't understand why I want to make such a big move?

If the Kels come south, it will only make the two divisions of Seyan and Luyan suffer losses, and our army only needs to strengthen the border wall guards, and it is reasonable to go forward for dozens of miles of defense at most, is it too much to transfer?

Is there an exaggeration? Your Majesty, please!" The speaker was Zhou Zaiyun, the left attendant of the household department, who was a master of counting, wrote many books on mathematics, and was an expert in calculation.

But he can't speak, and he often offends people. As soon as he opened his mouth, the military department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were all offended, and everyone immediately glared angrily.

"Lord Zhou, this is inappropriate, isn't it? Do you think that the military department and we are useless, or do you think that you are better at commanding the army than we are?"

Li Gengsan shook his beard and asked in a deep voice. Gu Lin belongs to the juniors, and it is inconvenient to resist, and Hou Xie's temper is too bad, so the old Hou Ye stood up.

"This ......, the lower official didn't mean that." Zhou Zaiyun also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he stiffened his neck and defended: "Hou is also angry, the lower official just wants to ask the truth!"

"The truth is that you don't understand military affairs, shut up!"

"You're ......!"

Zhao Tuo coughed, saw that the two of them stopped talking, and said, "The palace is on the royal history, and the second secretary of the palace is out of order, and the file is recorded!" Then he said:

"What Zhou Qing is suspicious of is nothing more than the transfer of the army to waste money and food, but this time I don't plan to let the household lose money, and try to issue treasury bonds. Specifically, Liu Daban will talk to you."

Seeing him nodding, Eunuch Liu stepped forward and explained the methods for printing and distributing treasury bonds, the issuance and trading of treasury bonds, and immediately caused a sensation in the audience.

"The state has borrowed money, which is unheard of, and there is no one who has ever done it before!"

"Where is the face of the Celestial Empire?"

"Zhu Qing," Zhao Tuo said loudly, "If there is a better way to raise military spending, I will listen to you."

"Your Majesty, the minister still has the same question, does this battle have to be fought?" Zhou Zaiyun got up again.

"I don't know, but I have to ask the Khan of the Karkos." Zhao Tuo was a little unhappy, and said coldly, "Whether he wants to enter Liaoxi, whether he wants to threaten Liaoyang, I and Zhuqing can't do anything, so I have to plan for the worst."

"But if he didn't enter Liaoxi at all, would it be worth it for the imperial court to spend so much and so much effort?"

Zhao Tuo frowned, his face was a little unsightly. At this time, a voice said, "Xia Guan has a question for Lord Zhou." Zhao Tuo looked for the source of the voice, and saw a person raise his hand in the last row of civil officials, and his face immediately softened: "Accurate!"

Li Dan stepped forward, reported his name first, and then turned to Zhou Zaiyun: "Xiaguan asks Lord Zhou for advice."

"How dare you, Tanhualang, please speak." Zhou Zaiyun wondered if this little man ran out with a smile, I don't know what he was going to ask?

"Dare to ask my lord, has there been any drifting in the household department's plan for Jiangnan Caoyun tribute rice?"

"Yes."

"Is this drift every year, and a fixed number of drifts every year?"

"This...... Of course not, it varies slightly from year to year."

"However, when the customs calculates the carrying capacity, it will still overcalculate the amount of drifting by a certain amount, right?"

"Exactly."

"Since the amount of drift varies from year to year, why should officials calculate drift in fixed increments when measuring it, could they not have predicted the prophet?"

"Of course not!" Zhou Zaiyun shook his sleeves in annoyance:

"The actual amount of the so-called drifting is only known after it arrives, and the surplus amount is used by the officials to ensure that the amount of tribute rice delivered to the warehouses in Beijing is correct, and even if there is a slight drift in the middle, the total amount will not be affected!"

"Then this is a precautionary measure, is it okay for the lower official to understand it like this?"

Zhou Zaiyun nodded.

Li Dan turned to the side of the military headquarters and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies: "The lords and generals have all understood what drifting is, and the practice of collecting increments in advance to prevent drifting from causing losses to the total amount of tribute rice transported to the Beijing Division, right? Do you know how Tobe is preparing for a rainy day?"

The crowd either nodded or arched their hands and said, "I see, so-and-so!"

"But ......, what does Li Tanhua have to do with the army's gathering in Liaoxi?" I don't understand how to transport it weekly.

"What he means is that the household department has a way to prepare for a rainy day, and the military department also has the military department. Okay?" Sun Liao (the right attendant of the ministry) smiled and helped Li Dan explain.

"Thank you, Lord Sun!" Li Dan knew from his brother that Sun Liao was a young official who was closer to Yangzhong, and he was also one of the people who were more trusted by the emperor at present, and after thanking him deeply, he said to Zhou Zaiyun:

"The territory of western Liaoning is vast, and the distance between the two cities can be hundreds of miles, and the speed of the cavalry of the Kel is obviously faster than our infantry, and when he has already stepped into the Daqingshan Imperial Court, he will transfer his troops, but I am afraid that on the way to the front line, all the cities and fortresses have been lost.

The mobilization of troops by the Ministry of War to Liaoxi is a kind of military precaution, and it is very normal."

"Hmph, but they need tens or millions of taels of silver to transfer troops!" Zhou Zaiyun said.

"Didn't Your Majesty just say that you can use the national debt method to absorb private funds without too much money from the treasury?"

Li Dan secretly slandered in his heart, if you say more, I will ask you how much is the value of drifting collected every year, and what is really used to offset the drifting loss? It's up to you to explain where the extra food is collected every year!

Unexpectedly, Zhou Zaiyun was a rectum, he heard Li Dan talk about the national debt, and immediately followed his words and turned the firepower to the national debt: "The old minister doesn't understand, if the country has money, it will do things, and if it has no money, it will not be done, so why should you borrow money from the people?"

"You old man is really pedantic, and other people's hooves are about to step into our door, and you are still here to instigate such sesame things!" Hou Xie finally couldn't help but jump up and said loudly.

"In that case, Zhou asked the old general, what if the Kerrs who spent a million taels of silver didn't come at all? Could it be that the old general smashed the pot and sold iron to pay off the debts for the imperial court?

And with that two cents of interest, where will this money come from?" Zhou Zaiyun was also angry, and he didn't care about any loss of honor in front of the king, so he clapped his hands "crackling".

"Old General Hou don't worry, Lord Zhou doesn't understand why he wants so much silver, and he wants it so urgently.

And Zhou Daren didn't figure it out, in fact, Fang just said that the national debt is guaranteed by the salt tax income of the Changlu Salt Farm, and in the future, the pastures, cultivated land, and orchards in the occupied area will be sold or leased, and the interest will be deducted from the income.

In this way, it is true that the imperial court can borrow money from the private sector without producing a large amount of money, and the private people not only have a good reputation for lending money to the imperial court, but also have a large amount of interest income. Things that are beneficial to both sides should not be very resistant to moving forward.

In addition, His Majesty's meaning actually contains two layers: the west road to make a response, and the east road to prepare for war and assemble; The western front supports Seyan, and the eastern front expands its territory! What kind of ambition is this?

Isn't it cost-effective that we can use one team to complete two missions?"

"Expand your territory?" All the civil officials were stunned, is there such a statement in it?

"Didn't you hear that?" Li Dan looked at everyone, then took the pile of paper from Liu Kan's hand, opened it and looked for it:

"Look, it is said that the armies of Liaoxi should spread out along the line of Lizhou, Yizhou, and Hongzhou and advance to Kulen, and prepare for a joint battle with the invading enemy on the line from Daqingshan to Wudan.

May I ask Lord Zheng of the Ministry of Officials, are the above-mentioned places where I have placed officials and guarded cities?"

Zheng Shou shook his head: "No, these areas were occupied by the first emperor during the Northern Expedition, but before the official palace was set up, the first emperor collapsed halfway, the army returned, and then Seyan reoccupied it. Now they are all mixed places of Er, Han and Han, and they are managed by officials of Seyan."

"Thank you, Lord Zheng!" After Li Dan thanked him, he asked with a smile, "Do you adults understand? Your Majesty clearly wants to fight the Korka, and secretly wants to recover the land of these three states and two counties, isn't it to expand the territory?"

"Oh, I see!" All the civil officials suddenly came to their senses, and immediately a smile appeared on their faces. Since ancient times, the emperor's opening up of territory has always been a major event of civil and martial arts, which is worthy of praise and is not easy to stop.

Zhou Zaiyun thought for a while and arched his hand: "Your Majesty's ambition is admired by the old minister. But I only hope that Your Majesty will think twice, and don't start a border provocation to prevent the lessons of the three expeditions at the end of the Sui Dynasty (referring to the three expeditions of Emperor Yang to Goguryeo and the consumption of national strength)."

"Zhou Qing is loyal, I am very grateful. Before the meeting, I not only consulted many important ministers for their opinions, but also informed the Queen Mother about it." Zhao Tuo knew that this Zhou Zaiyun was also an old minister of the Three Dynasties, so he brought the Queen Mother out to speak:

"The cavalry of the Kels traveled a hundred miles a day, and if it weren't for the desperate resistance of the two divisions of Seyan and Luyan, they were only afraid that they would have crossed the Keke River (Qingcheng to Daning line) by now.

That's why I decided to prepare for battle. On the one hand, we must try our best to break the edge of the Kalka, so that they do not dare to peep into our Liaoxi.

On the other hand, he took the opportunity to establish a tributary vassal relationship with Seyan and Lu Yan, and at the same time, as Li Qing said, he wanted to try his best to make the territory expanded by the former emperor truly belong to the Celestial Empire. The stakes are very high in this battle, and I hope that you will do your best to help me in order to succeed!"

The ministers in the palace all stood up and bowed in reply, "The ministers will do their best to drive forward for Your Majesty!"

Originally, Hou Xie wanted to be the military governor of Liaoxi, but Li Gengsan dissuaded him.

In the end, the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army elected a relatively young and experienced Shi Hao to take up this position, and he has now been promoted to the deputy governor of the Left Military Governor's Office (Zheng Sanpin), with the rank of Right Protector.

At the beginning, Li Dan had met him once in Fuzhou, but he didn't expect that this time it was an acquaintance, and he was very happy.

Then, as expected, the emperor issued an order to ask Li Dan to serve under Shi Hao's account as a member of the army and the chief governor.

"Monthly passes, recommendation tickets, and reading tickets are all thrown over, and I will take as many as I want!"